The Hipstorians
Two perhaps not so hip middle-aged amateur historians sharing their acquired knowledge and passion for all things past in their search to discover something new
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- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 49 minutes
- Episodes
- 59
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2023
Why we should ALL be afraid of Russia
In his book 'Russia's War on Everybody: And What it Means for You' author Giles Keir lifted the lid on how Russia has been waging a clandestine war against the West for decades. But here, he reveals …
00:49:08 |
Thu 04 May 2023
The resistance women who escaped the Germans
The American author Gwen Strauss tells the story of how her great aunt Hélène Podliasky led a band of nine female resistance fighters as they escaped a German forced labour camp and made a ten-day jo…
00:45:54 |
Thu 04 May 2023
The cover album art of Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, LSD, and the 1970s
Mark Blake, the author 'Us And Them: The Authorised Story Of Hipgnosis' - the history of record sleeve designers, who created some of the most iconic album covers of all time, including Pink Floyd’s …
00:42:47 |
Thu 27 Apr 2023
War reporting from the frontline in Iraq and Afghanistan, flying humvees, special forces, JSOC and the world police with Sean D Naylor
Sean D Naylor spent 20 years writing for Army Times and, being embedded with frontline troops, he was well placed to record the story of the rise of JSOC, Joint Special Operations Command.
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00:45:46 |
Thu 20 Apr 2023
Nuclear secrets and bombs, the Bhagavad Gita, Oppenheimer and more
Derek and Neil get schooled in unexpected ways after some chit chat and musings on their childhood fears of nuclear Armageddon. Alex Wellerstein reorients our long held views of nuclear history.
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01:00:52 |
Wed 12 Apr 2023
Pulitzer Prize winner David E Hoffman takes us to Cuba
Pulitzer Prize winner David E Hoffman (after a brief discussion about the Irish weather in December!) takes us to sunnier climes to talk about Oswaldo Paya and his fight for freedom in Castro’s oppre…
01:07:31 |
Fri 07 Apr 2023
Power, money and corruption in the Vatican City
This episode author Gerald Posner takes us through the dark dealings of Christianity’s most holy city, its ties to fascism, Joseph Mengele and how it makes its money.
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00:45:22 |
Thu 06 Apr 2023
Untold stories of African empires with Luke Pepera
Talking about old stories written out of history that ooen up a whole new world of discovery and why is it only now that we are being introduced to Africa’s rich and abundant history.
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00:37:27 |
Thu 30 Mar 2023
Untold stories of African Empires with Luke Pepera
Talking about old stories written out of history opening up a whole new world of discovery and why is it only now that we are being introduced to Africa’s rich abundant history.
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00:37:27 |
Wed 29 Mar 2023
Checkmate in Berlin and one of Britain’s deepest secrets
Take a wander through Berlin as the Cold War heats up and Giles Milton introduces us to his new podcast series Cover Up: Ministry of Secrets
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00:30:45 |
Fri 24 Mar 2023
Rocket man Homer Hickam
Almost Octogenerian Homer Hickam takes us on the rocket ship that is his life. Homer is probably best known for the movie about his childhood ‘October Sky’ which starred a young Jake Gyllenhaal, and …
01:03:17 |
Thu 16 Mar 2023
Tim Brannigan, black Irish Socialist Republican
Black IRA man Tim Brannigan shares his incredible story of life on the Falls Road Belfast, his time in the Maze Prison, his Irishness, his being black in a white Catholic community and his views on t…
01:17:34 |
Wed 15 Mar 2023
Airship down
In N-4 Down author Mark Piesing tells the unforgettable true story of what happened when the largest polar rescue mission in history was launched to find the survivors of the glamorous Arctic airship…
00:47:02 |
Thu 09 Mar 2023
Sex cult survivor who escaped the Children of God
Daniella Mestyanek Young is an author, a TEDx Speaker, a sex-cult survivor, and US Army Combat Veteran who joined us on the HIpstorians tell us about her extraordinary life as captured in her book Un…
00:58:22 |
Sun 26 Feb 2023
Delving into big history
Professor Michael Burleigh is a world-renowned historian whose massive books including The Racial State; Death and Deliverance; Germany Turns Eastwards; The Third Reich; Earthly Powers and Sacred Cau…
00:52:18 |
Thu 23 Feb 2023
The best (and worst!) conspiracies ever
We have great fun in this episode with Tom Phillips (Humans; Truth) and Jonn Elledge (The Compendium of Not Quite Everything) as we explore some of the wackiest conspiracy theories out there, which t…
00:57:05 |
Mon 20 Feb 2023
The Nazi billionaries
David de Jong's groundbreaking investigation into how the Nazis helped German tycoons make billions off the horrors of the Third Reich and World War II
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00:31:59 |
Thu 09 Feb 2023
Former SAS man and Falklands veteran
Nigel ‘Spud’ Ely’s soldiering career in the Parachute Regiment, the SAS, as a Military Consultant and as a war photojournalist has taken him in to some of the most deadly, high-octane, violent battle…
01:02:20 |
Thu 09 Feb 2023
The Falklands War - The unknown story
Best-selling military historian and author Ricky D Phillips tells us the inside story of the Falklands War, revealing what he has discovered through research into books like The First Casualty: The U…
01:01:01 |
Thu 26 Jan 2023
Voices from the Irish Civil War
Described by one commentator as the “unspeakable war" and “a story that nobody dared to tell," the tragic Irish Civil War of 1922-1923 has often been considered one of the darkest periods of the coun…
00:40:02 |
Thu 19 Jan 2023
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